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“Files Are Hard<\/a>” is one of those articles that show how complex even the simplest of things are. \u00a0How complex is writing to a file? \u00a0Well, quite. \u00a0Especially if you want to make sure there’s no corruption in case of a crash. \u00a0It goes both over the theory and practice, looking at different file systems.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

“Files Are Hard” is one of those articles that show how complex even the simplest of things are. \u00a0How complex is writing to a file? \u00a0Well, quite. \u00a0Especially if you want to make sure there’s no corruption in case of a crash. \u00a0It goes both over the theory and practice, looking at different file systems.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Files Are Hard #programming #linux #ComputerScience","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,18,62],"tags":[1192,616],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-25080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-programming","category-technology","tag-computer-science","tag-filesystem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11301,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/16\/blob-is-bad-for-your-mental-health\/","url_meta":{"origin":25080,"position":0},"title":"BLOB is bad for your (mental) health","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If you ever mention that your web application uses database to store files, you risk being flamed into oblivion.\u00a0 Indeed, in most cases, it is a bad idea, since file system is more effecient when it comes to files.\u00a0 However, there are cases when it makes sense to have files\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8009,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/06\/copying-files-to-remote-destinations-with-bells-and-whistles\/","url_meta":{"origin":25080,"position":1},"title":"Copying files to remote destinations. 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